Israel and Hezbollah cross attacks the day after the death of Hamas leader

The Israeli Army attacked positions of the Shiite group Hezbollah in Lebanon on Wednesday in response to the launch of projectiles from Lebanese territory, the day after the death in a bombing attributed to Israel in Beirut from number two of the political office of HamasSaleh al Arouri.

In a statement, Israeli forces said their artillery launched an attack on “the origin of fire” in southern Lebanon after detecting the launch of projectiles towards Israel, without causing any casualties.

Subsequently, the Israeli Army attacked a tank with a tank. “terrorist cell” in Lebanon and one of its fighter planes launched an attack against infrastructure and a “military compound” of the Shiite group on Lebanese soil.

Hezbollah has warned that “will not pass without an answer” the death of Al Arouri and five other people in the attack by an Israeli drone on Tuesday on the office of the Islamist group Hamas in the south of Beirut.

The Israeli-Lebanese border is experiencing its greatest tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, following a resurgence in aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza on December 7. October.

Since the beginning of hostilities in the area, at least 177 deaths have been recorded: 13 in Israel – 9 soldiers and 4 civilians – and 164 in Lebanon, including 127 members of Hezbollah, 16 members of Palestinian militias, one soldier and 20 civilians. -among them three journalists and three children-.

Israel has deployed more than 200,000 troops to its northern border, where violence has also displaced thousands of residents, with some 80,000 people evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 fleeing southern Lebanon.